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File: 37eb83834a5d2df⋯.jpeg (5.94 KB,180x280,9:14,7A2C218B-7CE2-4AEF-B6A6-8….jpeg)

 No.15146 [Open thread]

I just downloaded it

What am I in for me /lit/

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 No.15152

File: a6163bf87614ffe⋯.jpg (28.38 KB,195x300,13:20,Colorless_Tsukuru_Tazaki_a….jpg)

A lot of Murakami's books focus on spirits in the modern day as either a major point or side point. He uses it to create a surreal feeling to drive his plot across when having human interactions won't cut it. Personally, i enjoyed Kafka on the Shore but its a type of book you have to read over twice and then think about each chapter on how it relates to spirits.

Its alright. The more books you read, the more you'll notice his writing style which is kind of unique. Pic related would be a good book to read afterwards

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 No.15467

Op, did you ever read the book?

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 No.15476

>>15467

Yeah, it was good

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 No.15419 [Open thread]

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 No.15422

>Moravagine - Outlines the Judaea-Freudian-Bolshevic Conspiracy

Didn't find a single thing on this is it like a online pdf essay made by a modern day author?

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 No.15426

>>15422

Cendrars

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 No.15430

>>15426

Elaborate.

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 No.15436

OPs picture is a disgusting and terrible insinuation, and I hate pedophiles more than anything. Kill yourself.

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 No.15440

>>15430

is the novelist

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File: 229f9999a30fba2⋯.pdf (2.84 MB,Bitter Harvest by Ian Smit….pdf)

 No.15384 [Open thread]

Hey /lit/

First time poster, haven't bothered to check the catalog and too buzzed on beer to care. Do any of you like Jack London's works? If so, why? And if not, how come. As a personal individual, I don't really like the guy simply because he wasn't very loyal when it came to his wife… but overall, I always wonder what was going through his head. I also found his writing style to be exquisite, especially the way he describes the winter wastelands in his books, or the treacherous seas. Are there any other books you could recommend?

So far i've only read white fang, call of the wild, something something about the dude who gets marooned with a drunk captain and the love of his life, and another one about boxing but I got too drunk and lost the title.

on a side note, any of you guys know run baby run by nicky cruz? I lost that book and i've been looking for my copy for more than 10 years now

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 No.15435

My favorite London story is To Build a Fire. It's a comfy read and the prime example of his typical wilderness survival kind of stories. It also once again features his underlying theme of nature giving harsh lessons to the careless or unexperienced.

From what you wrote in the OP I think you might like it.

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 No.15437

I've never liked wilderness novels. Those and westerns. People's interactions have always been more interesting to me.

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 No.15427 [Open thread]

Ty in advance

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 No.15321 [Open thread]

Can't think of many edifying classics I like that are intended for developing young minds in particular. A lot of things I would hope they pick up weren't intended for young people in the first place. Any suggestions?

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 No.15389

>>15336

Cheers for the recs. Very much my line of thinking – Meditations was a great read and definitely something to share with my kids as they come of age.

The Prince has been on my reading list for too long, ditto so many of the classics, and it’s a good motivation to think of what my kids can learn from them as well as myself if I take my reading list more seriously.

I've been looking for more tips for the best impartial, non-revisionist history. I got ahold of a set of Encyclopedia Britannicas exactly because they’re pre-60s and, apart from there being something lovely about old encyclopedias of themselves, I do enjoy having a reference point for old knowledge that isn’t edited with the influence of modern ideology. I look forward to getting them out when my kids are old enough to ask “What is…?” and hopefully when they’re older they can spot the difference when looking at Wikipedia.

My own introduction to economic history has been an odd course and I could definitely use some suggestions of good books that outline the core concepts without oversimplifying.

I’m interested in all the building blocks of an insightful worldview, so recommendations across all those areas are great. I'm always open to philosophical suggestions, but especially if the writing style isn't overcomplicated — call me a pleb, but I don’t think good philosophical thinking needs to be overly ambiguous or obscure. Save that for the sophists.

The other thing I had in mind was, since this is an exercise for the future, my first child still being in the womb (and like I said, this is a kick in the pants for my reading habits), books that are geared for or at least suitable for younger minds and reading levels. I didn’t read a lot of stuff like Gulliver’s Travels etc. myself and wonder what people who have would suggest.

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 No.15404

>>15336

> Marcus Aurelius's Meditations

>bro like just be chaste and moral and accept living in abject poverty even though i am the literal emperor

get fucked

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 No.15407

>>15336

>Paul F. Kennedy's 'The Rise and Fall of Great Powers,' and to a lesser extent his works regarding naval power, are fantastic books to get started with geopolitics. They are well-researched, the author focuses on an impartial (completely untainted by identity politics) analysis of the material capabilities of great powers & their dominance or decline, starting from the Hapsburgs and ending with musings on US power in a multipolar world. Most importantly, each chapter offers enough depth for you to springboard into more serious analyses of certain time periods or nations - so you can better understand why Britain dominated the world one day and collapsed in the next, why Nazi Germany opted for war against the USSR instead of keeping a stalemate, why the US continues to intervene in the affairs of foreign nations at great cost to itself.

I have to look this one up

>>15389

My own introduction to economic history has been an odd course and I could definitely use some suggestions of good books that outline the core concepts without oversimplifying.

depends on what you're looking for. will check back later….there's many different economic concepts.

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 No.15409

>>15404

It's the quintessential delusion of the modern disaffected white male.

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 No.15425

>>15409

I swear to Christ who do /lit/, /his/, and /philosophy/ keep getting shitposts like these not even fucking /leftypol/ has them. Get the fuck out of 8chan or better yet get the fuck out of the internet in general.

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 No.14312 [Open thread]

Rank my lit folder

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 No.14375

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 No.14398

>urantia

God-tier, anon.

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 No.15377

>Windows

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 No.15390

>>15377

Hey faggot, he's clearly using Arch with a Windows skin

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 No.15393

>>15390

That's even worse. Like sucking dick while straight.

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 No.15382 [Open thread]

2:07

>Emily Dickinson

What is this referencing?

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File: b5cdb636d3a0b4e⋯.jpg (1.69 MB,2560x1762,1280:881,A15lmqlQi1L.jpg)

 No.15369 [Open thread]

anyone know some good alternate history books?

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 No.15368 [Open thread]

>>12678

anyone know some good alternate history books?

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 No.15366 [Open thread]

Haven't read a book in years, friend gave me this one. Read it and really enjoyed it. Wouldn't have picked it up if it wasn't a gift. How do I find similar books that I would like to believe build wisdom?

Bought a kindle just now and want to read more.

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 No.15367

>>15366

Book title: The Alchemist Paulo Coelho

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File: a0a03b8e9a37d3d⋯.jpg (72.6 KB,449x599,449:599,Allen_Ginsberg_1979_-_crop….jpg)

 No.12684 [Open thread]

>Part of the reason Ginsberg was suspended in his sophomore year from Columbia University was because he wrote obscenities in his dirty dorm window. He suspected the cleaning woman of being an anti-Semite because she never cleaned his window, and he expressed this feeling in explicit terms on his window, by writing "Fuck the Jews", and drawing a swastika.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl#Biographical_references_and_allusions

How does that make any sense? If you're feeling persecuted for being Jewish, why would you write "Fuck the Jews" on your window? Wouldn't you write "Fuck the Goys" or something like that?

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 No.13629

>>13628

Most Jews barely practice Judaism as a religion. It's much more of an ethnic identity (no matter how little Israelite blood they have). Hence the term secular Jew.

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 No.13630

File: 15eba3bfb093a98⋯.jpeg (169.66 KB,597x630,199:210,schopy stairs.jpeg)

>Schopenhauer, who hated noise (and wrote an amusing essay [1851; translated, 1890] on the topic), had been enraged by her loud chattering on the landing outside his room; in the ensuing altercation he pushed her, and she fell down a flight of stairs. He lost the case and was obliged to pay her a monthly allowance until her death. (When she finally died, twenty years later, he commented, "Obit anus, abit onus" [The old woman dies, the burden is lifted]).

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 No.13673

>>12684

I do similar things when I'm angry at someone or something and I think I understand him. Let me try to explain why. You know we all act differently when we're angry, right? We try to find ways to cope with the anger. Well, for some people, the coping mechanism is to demonstrate to the world and all its people just how ridiculously annoying the person you're angry at is. And that can be done by impersonating what that person stands for in an exaggerating way. It's like mocking, but the difference is you normally mock people because they are inferior, laughable, pitiful, and you do that in a humorous way, while, in these cases, you mock people because you're furiously angry at them. It's not the kind of mocking you and your friends laugh at, it's the kind of mocking that makes everyone in the room go silent and look at you with slightly scared eyes and feelings of regret behind them.

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 No.15348

>>13630

Lmao, what a bitter incel.

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 No.15360

>>13673

are you jewish?

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 No.10861 [Open thread]

What are some essential works of Russian literature. I'm already familiar with Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

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 No.13563

>>11568

thanks for the recs comrade

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 No.13849

Pre-derp? What was mentioned, plus

all the Silver Age folk, including Gumilev and Averchenko.

Post-derp?

Lukin (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?178368) sadly few translations, and mostly German

Frei (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?237554) - at least some books are translated.

less "loud" tier, but good:

Gevorkyan (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?181477) - alas, the best isn't on the list.

Mikhailov (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?92761) - ditto

>>11546

And yes, Pelevin. Oh, here's a freebie on English:

http://pelevin.nov.ru/rass/en-zigm/1.html

His "must read" book is Generation P / Babylon.

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 No.15333

>>12644

It's unlearnable. If you are an adult, It's too late.

Don't try.

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 No.15335

>>15333

Ignore this retard.

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 No.15341

>>12644

Reading and speaking a language are two very different animals, but one day you will want to speak, so it is very important to start now. Apps like HelloTalk allow you to do a language exchange. You teach your native language to someone who wishes to learn and they teach you Russian. If you really connect with someone, it's a great motivator, so don't give up if the first few conversations go nowhere. A paid Russian teacher is better but not always possible.

I like Benny the Irish Polyglot's blog for tips on learning languages. The most important thing by far is a little every day. 1% better each day makes you *3700%* better at the end of the year.

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 No.15316 [Open thread]

How's the writing career coming, /lit/?

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 No.15318

Just getting back into writing for the first time since I dropped everything for my chosen career, and really enjoying it now I'm at home preparing to squeeze out a baby.

Actually was wondering if this is a place to bring up an idea for a YA novel and see what people think; I like the idea of releasing for free the first installment of a would-be drama series that'd gently introduce teens to an increasingly dissident worldview as the main character grows up. Plot based around a high school girl who gets a development deal with a record company (Lorde-style), exploring her premature entry into an adult world, and slowly introducing (among other things) shit like predatory male feminists, professional victims in entertainment criticism/journalism, the anti-intellectual nonsense in modern humanities departments, etc. etc.

Besides that, I've got a lot of my own coming-of-age experiences to draw on now I'm old enough to reflect, and I like the idea of writing the kind of stuff I wish I'd come across as a lost teenager.

Wonder if it'd get any traction in online circles, as the kind of thing that wouldn't see the light of day in mainstream publishing?

Tend to think the problem with growing dissident political movements is that we have so little cultural output in spite of a growing audience for it and an urgent need for it.

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 No.15319

>>15318

You should have her enter the glittery world of music production, but slowly realize there is an underworld of sex trafficking that leads her on a wild chase of pizza parlors in the flight for her life as she ends up bringing down an old order alien species that has evolved to look human, but secretly controls the world with big noses.

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 No.15320

>>15316

there's literally a writefag thread three threads over, why make this?

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 No.15326

>>15319

Interested to hear your definition of 'should'.

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 No.15334

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Finishing up edits on my next soft erotica book and will be publishing it on Amazon soon, where I will probably make enough money over the course of the next year to buy one tank of gas, unless I do something differently. Considering buying some ad space on Goodreads.

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 No.15324 [Open thread]

This crystallised for me everything that is right and wrong about fiction, and convinced me to fix what'd become my exclusively nonfic diet.

Sincerely recommend. Anyone else? Also, any similar books with similar/different takes you'd suggest?

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 No.15327

What exactly did you like about it?

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 No.15328

>>15327

He explains what it means for literature to genuinely explore themes by testing moral/ethical hypotheses, so that a book can have real moral meaning without the author sperging out on a blatant rant. Frustrating that people see the title and assume he’s advocating for Goofus-and-Gallant preaching; I think he’d agree that that’s the problem with morally childish/incoherent award-bait lhat’s now called ‘socially important’ (The Handmaid’s Tale etc.), when compared to texts that are complexly constructed to explore truth rather than present a predetermined morality play. I'd never heard this fully articulated before, although I felt the same intuitively.

He argues that an author must have the moral/intellectual humility to embrace being proven wrong, and commit to ruthlessly honesty, rather than merely seeking to prove himself right. This is a larger point about what it means to be intellectual/scientific/philosophical that applies to so much in life.

Gardner repeats his core thesis a bit and I would suggest skimming towards the end if it feels like you’ve heard everything he has to say. Still, there are also excellent use of examples of what he’s talking about, especially when discussing thematically vacuous but popular/critically acclaimed trash, and comparing it to the best of literature.

What’s most inspiring to me as someone who wants to write, and not just read, is he shows it’s remarkably simple to uncover real human truth if your sincere goal is to be true-to-life (rather than true-to-preexisting-belief-system) even and especially when following contrived scenarios to their (socially) logical conclusions. And yet it’s clear how this is increasingly rare thanks to pretty blatant conceptual regimentation by our self-appointed cultural gatekeepers (plus readers/writers have less and less literary appreciation/ambition, likely as a result).

It’s a welcome antidote to the morally relativistic and nihilistic streaks in modern culture, especially that most obnoxious strain which preaches intractable relativism while simultaneously declarinPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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 No.15330

You are a redditor.

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 No.15598

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 No.15323 [Open thread]

This crystallised for me everything that is right and wrong about fiction, and convinced me to fix what'd become my exclusively nonfic diet.

Sincerely recommend. Anyone else?

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 No.15342

>>15323

You forgot your image file, fren.

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